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Bryan Magee grew up to be an intellectual and to sound exceedingly posh. However, he certainly did not forget his working class roots. Despite the great distance at which he is writing about pre-war Hoxton, he manages to convey the wonderment of a child experiencing his first surroundings. Those days before we start to think too much - they are full of sights, sounds, objects, and people we will never forget. He is writing about the 1930s, but some of the details would have been the same in the early 1960s. For anyone who grew up in pre-sophisticated London, it is nostalgic and somehow very grounding to read this account.
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Brilliant book, I read this book a few years ago, lent it to a friend and never had it returned. Looking forward to reading it again. I came from Hoxton but am a few years younger than the author but can remember lots of people and places etc he mentions. A good read if you know the area or not.
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